England Championship · first half goals
Stoke City First Half Goals
In 241 England Championship matches, 66.0% of Stoke City’s first halves produced a goal, 25th of the 32 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 42.7% of them and conceded in 41.1%.
What Stoke City’s first halves look like
The back line is a different proposition on the road: 48.8% of away matches bring an early goal against Stoke City, next to 33.3% at home. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 241 matches against a typical 149.
Stoke City come 25th of 32 in the published England Championship field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal. Stoke City guard the first half better than they attack it: 10th of 32 in the division for early goals conceded, 15th for scoring them.
A goal arrives before halftime in 66.0% of Stoke City’s England Championship matches. The England Championship figure is 68.5%, leaving them 2.5pp short of it. A goalless first half remains common all the same, at 34.0%. Neither end of the pitch is much busier than the other early on in Stoke City’s matches: they find the net before the break in 42.7% of matches and let one in during 41.1%.
Every figure on this page rests on 241 completed Stoke City matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Stoke City first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 66.0% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 29.5% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 8.7% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.06 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 42.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 41.1% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.55 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.51 |
| Matches counted | 241 |
| Seasons covered | 6 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 63.3% | 25.8% | 43.3% | 33.3% | 1.00 | 120 |
| Away | 68.6% | 33.1% | 42.1% | 48.8% | 1.12 | 121 |
Stoke City score before halftime 43.3% of the time at home against 42.1% away, a gap of 1.2pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Stoke City against England Championship
| Line | Stoke City | England Championship | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 66.0% | 68.5% | −2.5pp |
| Over 1.5 | 29.5% | 31.6% | −2.1pp |
| Over 2.5 | 8.7% | 10.5% | −1.8pp |
Counted from 241 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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